Quotes About Ethics

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.

Golf is a game of integrity. And golf is a game of forgiveness. I think the high standards of golf remind people of how lucky they are, or how fortunate they are, to be able to play the game.

The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.